Tag: Oliver Stone

• Scarface (1983)

  

  A classic of its genre, Scarface typifies ‘80s materialism in much the same way that the 1932 movie of the same name that it was based on symbolised the Prohibition era. Back then it was booze, now it’s cocaine. Then it was jazz and the Charleston, now it’s big hair and electro-pop. Like all great…

  Borley Bookworm

  December 5, 2023

  crime, drugs, Scarface, 3/4

  Al Pacino, Brian de Palma, Oliver Stone, thriller